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  1. Rats to detect mines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Dutch Police Recruit Rats To Sniff Out Crime

    Rats can also be trained to detect mines

  2. Re:and in the rainy season they can move by PhilHibbs · · Score: 1 · on Not Quite a T-1000, But On the Right Track

    What they need is rats. Lots of rats.

  3. Use a rat... by Fuzzums · · Score: 2 · on Laser Prototype Improves Bomb Detection

    http://www.apopo.org/home.php?lang=en

    Easy to train, easy to maintain, cheap and multifunctional.
    The laser technology definitely is cool, but I like the rat solution.

  4. Rats! by sandytaru · · Score: 4, Informative · on Explosive Detecting Devices Face Off With Bomb Dogs

    The Hero Rats do just as well as dogs, and they are more suited to hot and humid clients. Plus, they work for peanuts.

  5. concept is from before 1997 by MACC · · Score: 3, Informative · on US Army To Train Rats To Save Soldiers' Lives

    and has been used heavily since.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APOPO

    known original work:
    http://www.apopo.org/cms.php?cmsid=16&lang=en

  6. Don't need the DoD, already being done by OnceWas · · Score: 5, Informative · on Trained Rats Map Minefields With GPS

    It's not crazy, and it's already being done, by organization like HeroRATs - http://www.apopo.org/cms.php?cmsid=107. They train African giant pouched rats to detect mines. They're also using them to detect tuberculosis, in human spit. Yuck, but way cool.

  7. Re:Duh. How much did we spend on this? by mirix · · Score: 1 · on Researchers Turn Mice Into Wine Snobs

    I don't think mice are smart enough for that sort of business. Rats, on the other hand, been trained to sniff out land mines, and even TB.

    bbc story
    mines

  8. Re:iDiots... by dna_(c)(tm)(r) · · Score: 1 · on Apple Tries To Gag Owner of Exploding iPod

    Excellent idea, let's save all those rats! I know, the rats don't set off the mines, but still.